At least three large industrial groups, Reliance, Tatas (Tata Steel) and L&T, are in talks with the Pune-based National Chemical Laboratories, for access to NCL's AEM electrolyser technology.
Dr Kaliaperumal Selvaraj, a senior scientist at the government of India-owned CSIR-NCL has been quoted by the Business Line newspaper as saying that his team has achieved success with a small scale AEM, using transition metals as electrodes.
It is reliably learnt that NCL's AEM has successfully run for "a few thousand hours of continuous operation".
In another report, NCL's Director, Dr Ashish Lele, has been quoted as saying that green hydrogen at $ 2 per kg is possible.
As hydrogen insiders know, the 'alkaline' technology is the technology of yesterday; PEM is the technology of today; AEM is the technology of tomorrow. (Well, 'tomorrow' is at least 5 years away.)
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